With deep flaring sides painted on the exterior with a leafy stem of red Chinese lantern plant, bearing one gilded flower and bud and a few iron-red ‘lanterns’ (husks), one shown open to expose the iron-red fruit within, with further ‘lanterns’ on the reverse, all in famille verte reserved on a pale celadon ground below the brown-dressed rim, with a small stylized flower head in underglaze blue within a double circle in the bottom of the interior, with an apocryphal da ming nian zhi mark on the base
4 3/4in. (12.2cm) diam.

Provenance:
Percival David Foundation, no. 839.